Same Verdict, Same Systemically Racist System? – Opinion

Under the new Operation Safe Streets Initiative, a SWAT Team raided the West Palm Beach residence of a family in March 2017.

West Palm Beach, FL’s local WPTV reported in 2017:

After one of their deputy was killed in a gunshot accident, the initiative to create a committee came into being.

“We started this operation targeting criminals, felons, fugitives, drug dealers and people who are causing problems in the community,” said Flowers.

This month’s operation already led to 4 searches warrants, 16 arrests, and the seizing of guns and drugs.

West Palm Beach officials described father Andrew Coffee III as a career criminal and son Andrew Coffee IV, as career criminals. They had been arrested before.

Andrew Coffee IV, his son, retorted and it was later reported that he had used Alteria Woods, his girlfriend, as a shield.

The sheriff’s office says the younger Coffee started shooting at the swat teams members, forcing them to return fire. He used his pregnant partner as a shield. She was killed from the deputies’ crossfire.

“Cowardly actions on their part,” said Lt. Eric Flowers with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.

Coffee IV was protecting his house, or was it a radical criminal with an too-powerful military gun trying to skirt law and kill police. He also murdered his girlfriend.

The trial of Coffee IV v. Indian River County Sheriff’s Department. Andrew Coffee IV was found not guilty on five out of six charges against him by a jury composed of his peers.

WPTV reported also on the trial, and the verdict.

#BREAKING: Andrew Coffee IV found not guilty of murder, attempted murder in Indian River County SWAT raid https://t.co/O5iFtO36hH

— WPTV (@WPTV) November 19, 2021

A man from Indian County on trial In connection to a fatal 2017 SWAT raid at Gifford, five of the six charged were not proven guilty Friday.

Andrew Coffee IV, Alteria, 21, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, Andrew Coffee IV. Three counts were added for attempted murder. raid led to an exchange of gunfire.

A deadly missile was also not fired or thrown at him, but he was acquitted.

“I’m glad that he was found not guilty because I knew he loved Alteria,” said Alteria’s mother, Yolanda Woods.

The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office claimed Coffee IV fired shots first at deputies during an early-morning search warrant for narcotics at a Gifford home four years ago.

A police arrest warrant states that SWAT officers fired back into the bedroom. Coffee IV claims that deputies opened fire first.

Have you heard of today’s man who was found not guilty of murder after pleading self defense? No not that guy Kyle… This guy… pic.twitter.com/x1TdGEsXTt

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) November 20, 2021

Do you sound familiar? Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all six of his charges. Bruce Schroeder, the judge who presided over the case regarding the legality and validity of the firearm, dismissed the sixth charge before the jury could deliberate. Kyle’s attorneys claimed that the shootings of Anthony Huber, Joseph Rosenbaum, and Gaige Grosskreutz were a result of Rittenhouse defending himself against their aggressive attacks.

Coffee IV, fearing for his safety, told investigators that Coffee IV had fired at least two to three shots. The sheriff’s office maintained it announced its presence.

Coffee IV told investigators that he didn’t know it was deputies because they did not announce who they were.

The claim that he used his girlfriend as a shield was torn down during the trial and also debunked by Woods’ mother, who holds no animus toward Coffee IV over the death of her daughter.

Alteria, his girlfriend, died in the gunfire after she was also shot.

“She was laying in bed and they shot her ten times,” Woods cried.

Her claims also that the initial reports that Coffee IV was using Woods as an insulator were false. Woods being pregnant was also a rumor she denied.

An earlier grand jury exonerated Coffee IV and the deputies that fired their guns during the incident. Coffee IV, however, was found guilty Friday of possessing ammunition or firearms by a convicted felon.

It should. Unlike Kyle Rittenhouse, who had no criminal record (unlike the majority of those that he shot), as a convicted felon, Coffee IV’s possession of a firearm Was illegal. Coffee IV was found guilty on this count. It is aligned to established state and local laws.

Woods’ mother feels as though Coffee IV’s almost complete acquittal is a just verdict. However, she wants the state to be held accountable for her daughter’s death, and is suing the sheriff’s department in civil court.

Why continue using the systemically racist court system to seek justice when it is?

It’s a good idea to ask a friend.

Interesting is the lack of cries for injustice, systemic racism or a weighted judiciary system in regard to Andrew Coffee IV’s trial. In fact, it didn’t even hit the national press, mainly because it does not fit their chosen narrative of gun control and dangerous white men with guns.

However, both young men were protected by the same court-by-jury system and their gun freedoms. Both men were guaranteed their rights by the same American court system, in different states. It is absolutely schizophrenic, not to mention disingenuous, to cry that the system worked for one person because of their race, but didn’t work for another in spite of theirs.

It is this way that the American justice system should work. Lady Justice is protected by a blindfold. This prevents her ruling on any basis other than the law and evidence. You can find many other reasons the system may not work equally for all, and this is just one. Despite protests and outcries about the Rittenhouse verdict being thrown out, the Coffee IV verdict continues to be ignored.

Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure does a terrific job of breaking down both cases, and explains his support of the Rittenhouse and Coffee IV verdicts, and how the Left’s racist push for gun control continues to do harm to all people, but especially “melanated” people.